Sentences with phrase «young elementary school student»

Imagine a young elementary school student trying to learn math problems with other kids running around the playground, chasing each other and laughing.

These students teach the Honor Code to fifth graders, who, in turn, explain it to younger elementary school students to help establish a student - driven culture of integrity.

Although The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me may appear at first to be for younger elementary school students, I have read this story to my Grade 5 students numerous times and used the projects found on this page with upper elementary school students with great success.

Even the youngest elementary school students will enjoy trying their hand at tongue twisters.

Although The Enormous Crocodile may appear at first to be for younger elementary school students, I have read this story to my Grade 5 students numerous times and used the projects found on this page with upper elementary school students with great success.

Although Esio Trot may appear at first to be for younger elementary school students, I have read this story to my Grade 5 students numerous times and used the projects found on this page with upper elementary school students with great success.

Sleepless Knight is a fun camping story told in comic book form for preschoolers and young elementary school students.

While school administrators generally like the iPad's touch screens for younger elementary school students, some said older students often needed laptops with built - in physical keyboards for writing and taking state assessment tests.

Not exact matches

So says an enterprising young student at Aspen Heights elementary school in Red Deer, Alberta.

The concept is simple: a team of four college students composed of two young men and two young women spends a week at a parish, catechising the elementary school students (ages 5 - 13) during the day and the high - school students (ages 14 - 18) in the evenings.

When your child leaves the cozy confines of elementary school for larger middle and high schools, it's a big transition — both for your young student and for you.

On campus, Chef Instructors helped schools launch an elementary school Salad Bar Host program that trains fifth and sixth graders to help younger children at the salad bar, and a high school Food Club for students who wish to take an active role in improving nutrition and food literacy at their school.

According to the acting CEO, UBA Foundation, Bola Atta while touring the C. William Brumskine elementary school in Monrovia to introduce The Fishermen to a delightful group of young students said: «We at UBA Foundation are eager to better the lives of people across the continent.

But then Russo and two fellow graduate students, Brett Walker and Michael Bell, realized its potential in schools, from light - up textbooks to DIY circuitry projects for kids as young as elementary school age.

«Younger students need experiences with engineering and technology if they're going to succeed in our 21st - century world — a world that increasingly depends on these disciplines,» says Cunningham, who is also the founding director of Engineering is Elementary, a program that brings engineering concepts into elementary school classrooms around the country.

The clearinghouse now houses more than 500 reports that summarize current findings on such topics as math instruction for young children, elementary school writing and helping students with the college application process.

Q: Is the Teaching in Schools training accessible to younger elementary students?

Like a lot of best friend stories, their meeting as elementary school students isn't spectacular, but being young and impressionable does help build a firm basis friendship.

While these young adult books are typically middle school level, their resonant subject matter, complex characters, profound themes, vivid vocabulary, and historical contexts make them suitable as enriched reading for elementary students and as a bridge for high school freshmen.

While BPS staff has expended significant time and political capital in order to make this limited space available to charters, the district's primary concern is a growing number of young students entering Pre-K programs and elementary schools.

If you're working with elementary and middle school students, most admissions offices won't host tour groups for students that young.

Reality: While it's true that younger students, whether they be elementary school students or freshmen at your high school, need a more fundamental set of skills for both academics and behavior, students of all ages can work to know themselves better, relate better to others, and make responsible choices.

Most charter schools serve mainly elementary students, and young children make up the largest share of the few voucher programs that have been attempted.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants offers a financial literacy section on their website with advice for young children and teens about money, a video on budgeting for older kids, and activities for elementary school students.

They have developed a standards - based report card for the elementary schools to support the paradigm shift, and, as young learners move into the higher grades, administrators hope the students and parents will demand project - based, technology - integrated education from their teachers.

The Los Alamos National Laboratory has allocated $ 100,000 for a project designed to let elementary - and middle - school students perform as young scientists in assessing real - world environmental or energy problems.

There are a panoply of «jobs» we might «hire» a pre-K program to perform for families: the job of providing dependable custodial services for working parents; the job of preparing students for elementary school by focusing on high impact areas like early vocabulary exposure; the job of keeping young children healthy during their early years of development.

Her experience teaching elementary school students in New Orleans as a first - grade teacher and then working as a reading immersion specialist had shown Grayson the importance of literacy for young children.

Easier Youth Version — suitable for elementary school audiences, special education classes, classroom readings with young student actors, and those needing an abbreviated version

By nearly all accounts, the administrators, teachers, and students at Sandy Hook elementary did everything right Friday — and long before that day — when a young man armed with powerful weapons blasted his way into the school with gunfire.

Dr. Pope also works directly with some middle and elementary schools to help them reduce student stress, and said symptoms of stress are showing up in increasingly younger students.

Young Authors and Artists Collaborate on Humanitarian Project Students at a Washington elementary school shipped more than 1,000 books to schools in the South Pacific.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

The combination of needy younger students with older students thrilled to feel needed has benefited both groups of youngsters — despite concerns expressed at the outset of the program by elementary and high school teachers and parents.

My oldest daughter is a student teacher at a wonderful elementary school in Oakland County; my younger children attend middle school and high school here, too.

Kindergarten and elementary school teachers instruct young students in basic subjects, such as math and reading, in order to prepare them for future schooling.

Some of the youngest volunteers are specially - selected students from Chaska Senior High School who willingly share their unique cultures with the elementary students.

The young woman sitting across from me had just finished eight weeks of student teaching, and she was anxious to have her own elementary school classroom in one of America's major cities.

High school students from Parkland FL are speaking out eloquently and powerfully in favor of gun regulation, in a way elementary school students from Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT, were not able to do because they were too young

Suggests that early childhood development focus on play, elementary school gear the curriculum toward learning how the world works, middle schools create programs that develop the young adolescent's social, emotional, and meta - cognitive growth, and high schools emphasize preparing students to live independently in the real world.

As elementary schools build common learning areas adjacent to classrooms, architects are incorporating small nooks — some with beanbag chairs — where younger students can sit and work independently on their devices.

Rushed APPR plans reviewed by law school students and supervised by a young, former Teach For America grad now Fellow, led to disastrous results such as those of Syracuse, where 40 % of the teachers were rated below effective and no elementary or middle school teacher was found to be highly effective.

First, acknowledging that middle level students (age 10 - 14) learn differently than their elementary and high school friends and siblings, they began by reviewing the developmental research on young adolescents and taking those unique learning needs as a starting point for planning changes in classroom instruction, increasing electives, providing intervention, reviewing their discipline procedures, and attending to the social and emotional needs, a key to success with middle level student success.

In «Blended Learning for Early Learners,» Mary Evans, Jennifer Hawkins, and Patrice McCrary, describe how a Kentucky elementary school uses technology to personalize learning for its youngest students.

Blended Learning for Early Learners Mary Evans, Jennifer Hawkins, and Patrice McCrary A Kentucky elementary school uses technology to personalize learning for its youngest students.

Two days after the Orleans Parish (La.) district threatened to revoke charters for two elementary schools, the board for Einstein Charter Schools has agreed to provide busing for its youngest stschools, the board for Einstein Charter Schools has agreed to provide busing for its youngest stSchools has agreed to provide busing for its youngest students.

Peace Games (http://peacegames.org) forms partnerships with elementary schools, families, and young adult volunteers to empower students as peacemakers to create their own safe classrooms and communities.

The suspension rate for elementary students at Success Academy charter schools is seven times the rate of New York City's public elementary schools and, like Achievement First, Inc. the charter school was targeting and abusing children as young as kindergarten.

Though there are two other elementary - level enrollment zones (Stapleton and Far Southeast), in the past there has been reticence to move toward elementary enrollment zones as families, particularly for younger students, tend to prioritize proximity to school.

Unlike most charters — which prefer to start with younger kids and build a network of feeder elementary schools before venturing into high school — Collegiate only works with high school students.